Bible Discussion Thread

if paul says the letters kill but the spirit gives life, why are we still reading the scriptures? You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life.

Joshua....If the bible ( the written words ) cd have atoned for the sins of the world...Then our lord shed his blood in vain and the Cross was just foolishness...And there wd have been no need for a New Covenant at Calvary in his blood...Israel was sola scriptura they knew the bible by heart...From Gen. to Malachi...But Israel stoned all of the Prophets and rejected the Christ...Jesus asked which of the Prophets have not you fathers stoned....But they had a good knowledge of the scripture...But the written word is a killer...( the law was a killer ) simply b/c the soul that sinneth shall surely die...and we all sin.

But under the new Covenant..The blood of the lamb...The gift of God is Baptism of the H.G. John 4:10....The ANOINTING that we receive of him that will teach us all things..And bring all things to your remembrence....The H.G. (The living word) much greater then the written word the Old Covenant.

.....Thats y Jesus told Peter flesh and blood can not reveal it unto you...( The written word ) But only by my Father in Heaven...Which is Spirit...But Jesus was telling it as it is when he said to search the scriptures in them you think you have eternal life....Its only by the Cross the blood of the lamb that we have eternal life...That Anointing that he gives us is the only thing that can teach us...Which is the H.G...The Child of Promise...The manchild that is gonna rule all nations with his rod of iron...ok lemme go....Whosoever receiveth one such Child in my name receivith me....In my name implies he is our bridegroom that has to know us..sowing that good seed the word in our hearts and minds....Thats exactly what the father tells us in Jeremiah 31:34 that NEW covenant...need some coffee...

Joshua288, you are giving two different Scriptures here & they're different.

2 Corinthians 3:6: "Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life." If you have read further in this chapter, Paul writes about, "ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious...". This is what he is referring to: the letter of the Law was never designed to give Israel life (freedom of guilt, of penalty, of death & separation from God). The Law was given by God for many reasons, but ultimately we read what Paul wrote in Galatians 3:10-24, mainly that the Law never justified anyone, it couldn't because none could keep it perfectly. But the Law was given to show men their sinfulness & to draw him back to God, Who would one day save men (not by the keeping of the Law), but by having faith in Jesus His Son. So the letter of the Law will kill us sending us to hell, if we're dependent on it to save us. But the Spirit, the Holy Spirit gives the believer life now & into eternity, by virtue of Jesus' Death & Resurrection, & our believing this great act of Love. The letter of the Law could never do this. The Law was temporary, until Jesus came.

Then you quoted John 5:39, "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me." In this chapter, Jesus is speaking to the Jewish leaders who were wanting to kill Him ( John 5:18). Then Jesus speaks to them concerning what He was doing there & then about His Coming as the Son of God (vv18-24). He tells these leaders that 'they don't have God's Word in them because they refuse to believe in Jesus' (v38). And then He tells them, "Search the Scriptures", or 'you are diligently searching through the Scriptures, believing that eternal life is found in it' (this is from the original Greek). 'But these very Scriptures you read, bear witness of Me.' They failed to see Jesus' Coming in them.